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Painting

Solomon Levitan

Date: 1926
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Solomon Levitan.
Painting

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1867
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick.
Photograph

Isaac L. Stephenson

Date: 
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of United States senator Isaac Stephenson.
Painting

Moses M. Strong

Date: 
Description: Painted portrait of Moses Strong.
Photograph

R.J. Thomas Playing Santa Claus

Date: 12 21 1947
Description: R.J. Thomas playing Santa Claus for children of Allis-Chalmers strikers. "Santa Claus Has Come To Town: You may not know it but that's UAW-CIO Vice-Pres...
Photograph

Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
Photograph

Krueger Family in Field

Date: 08 24 1907
Description: August, Tina, Sarah, Jennie, Edgar and Alex Krueger posing outdoors in a field. Alex took this photograph remotely with a string tied to the shutter of the...
Photograph

Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1863
Description: Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863.
Photograph

Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
Description: Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling.
Photograph

Orson Welles

Date: 1975
Description: A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands.
Photograph

Jefferson Coates

Date: 1870
Description: Francis Jefferson Coates of the 7th Wisconsin who earned the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Gettysburg. Sergeant Coates was so severely wounde...
Photograph

Major George Bill

Date: 
Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Major George Bill, 7th Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Carl Schurz

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane.
Photograph

John Muir

Date: 1899
Description: A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir.
Photograph

Rennebohm Christmas Party

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Group portrait of children and a few adults, dressed in coats and hats, posed with a man dressed as Santa Claus, at Rennebohms Drugstore #12, 2526 Monroe S...
Print

Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Photograph

Doctor James T. Reeve

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype oval-framed portrait of Doctor James T. Reeve, assistant surgeon, 10th Wisconsin, Surgeon of the 21st Wisconsin. Quarter-leng...

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